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...soldiers of the Nahal Brigade are aware of just how elusive the enemy can be. In the past three months, the reconnaissance unit has conducted 72 separate operations against terrorist targets. The group is getting faster with each mission. Immediately after receiving the midnight order to pursue the suspect in Nablus, Dan and his lieutenants began planning the raid, phoning nearby units to ask for extra vehicles, grenades and infrared light sticks to operate in the darkness. In a Spartan classroom at the Beit Lid base that functions as the unit's command center, Dan showed his troops magnified aerial...
After two hours of walking, Dan and his men reached the edge of the suspect's compound. But then the unit's well-rehearsed plan went awry. One team spotted a man running from the house and sprinted after him, only to lose sight of the figure. Seconds later, another man dashed into the darkness; a soldier gave chase and fired a warning shot in the air, but the man disappeared. Sensing that the unit's cover was now blown, Dan ordered one team to blow open the door to the house and begin clearing it. Speaking in Arabic...
...half-Indian, half-Vietnamese French citizen, traveled between Europe and Asia in the '60s and '70s picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey. He served 21 years in jail before being repatriated to France. Kathmandu police found Sobhraj gambling in a five-star hotel casino; he is being held for questioning over the 1975 murders...
...Olof Svensson took a break from the soccer match on TV and stepped outside the pub to catch a breath of fresh air. That's when plainclothes police nabbed him in a Stockholm suburb last Tuesday night. Police say Svensson, although not formally charged, is a suspect in the Sept. 10 stabbing death of Anna Lindh, Sweden's popular Foreign Minister, in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm. Swedish newspapers said Svensson, 35, was a high school dropout and had been convicted of more than 40 past crimes, including gross fraud, violence, physical abuse, theft and threats with...
Cambridge and Harvard police officers struck the suspect, William Cicero, with a baton and doused him with pepper spray after he refused to drop his weapons, said Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesperson Steven G. Catalano...